In the first quarter of 2014, two maternal deaths have already been recorded in the municipality.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, the Municipal Public Health Nurse, Mrs. Cynthia Baidoo, attributed increase in maternal mortality to home delivery, delays in arriving at hospitals during labour, refusal to attend antenatal clinic during pregnancy and unsafe abortion.
She said for pregnant women to have safe delivery they are supposed to visit the antenatal clinic for at least four times.
Mrs. Baidoo said about 95 percent of the maternal deaths that ended at the Tarkwa Government Hospital were avoidable and advised pregnant women who would be referred by any health center to larger hospitals to do so rather than deliver at home.
She said this year her outfit would be organizing durbars across the municipality to sensitize women on the need to attend antenatal clinics.
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Source;GNA
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